I try to do one longer bike ride every year - preferably one that I can take starting on the bike from my house outside of Boston.
This year I’m going to start out on my bike, and take a train down to DC, go to Pittsburgh (about 400 miles) and then take a train back to NY where my kids live. My wife will pick me up there and we’ll go home.
My bike friends have told me that I am going the wrong way - I should go Pittsburgh to DC. I’m sure they are right (there is a famous 23 mile hill that I have to climb going this way). But logistics required this route.
I’ll give you a trip report when I’m back - around Sep 16th.
The wife and I did the C&O several years back (live outside DC), it was good fun. Sounds like you’re a much more into it than we were, though. Enjoy the scenery while you’re here!
I am back! It was a beautiful 6 days of biking - had great weather and the trail is quite flat.
From a diabetes side - I had some digestive problems with the Metformin (constipation) so I stopped taking it after about 2 days of riding.
It took a few days for me to get onto a new diabetes dosing plan that kept me from going low. Basically eating about 200 sugary calories an hour. I loved those “bakeless” cookies made of peanut butter / oatmeal / sugar / nuts. Also big reeses peanut butter cups.
My insulin use from my pump went down about 20% – I usually change carts every 4 days, and here I kept going for about 5.5 days.
Bike touring is one of those vacations where it takes about 3 days to get in biking rhythm, and then your body feels so good you want to stay in that rhythm. I was sad to get back on the Amtrak from Pittsburgh and head home.
